software-engineering-research - Software Engineering Research Guide
Guide to software engineering research topics and methodologies
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Updated: 2026-05-09software engineeringresearchcode analysismining repositoriesstatic analysisempirical researchsoftware testingdistributed systemscybersecurityHCI
Capabilities
Typical Inputs
Typical Outputs
What this skill does
- navigate research landscape
- identify research subfields
- conduct controlled experiments
- mine repositories
- perform case studies
- access benchmarks
- analyze static code
- calculate metrics
- identify venues
Inputs
- GitHub repositories
- source code
- research datasets
- code analysis tools
- version control systems
- bug trackers
- Stack Overflow data
- CVE database
Outputs
- research reports
- dataset analysis results
- code metrics
- commit patterns
- bug analysis reports
- interview summaries
- literature reviews
- thematic analysis
Requirements
- Python environment
- Git access
- data analysis libraries
- static analysis tools
- research datasets